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Jan 26, 1996 · A Guide to "Byzantine" Literature V. 1.3. Paul Halsall, December 1995, September 1996. Additions between V. 1.2 and V.1.3 preceded by * "Byzantine" Novels. Historical fiction varies in quality from anachronistic potboilers to beautifully written and well-researched works of literature.
Byzantine Literature. To grasp correctly the essential characteristics of Byzantine literature, it is necessary first to analyze the elements of civilization that find expression in it, and the sources whence they spring. If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Greek race of the Eastern Roman Empire during the ...
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Andreas Bagordo. The Greek lyric poet Sappho (c. 600 BC) figures in her reception not only as a poet (in the sense of a producer of poetry), but also as an outstanding poetic personality. Not least by reason of the dismal state of transmission of early Greek lyric in general and S. in particular – at least for much of the 2,600 or so years ...
This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included.
Saint Augustine in post‐byzantine Literature. During the post‐byzantine period, Augustine becomes well‐known widely, initially at the 12th‐13th centuries, from latin‐influenced byzantine theologians or latin delegates of synodical conferences (Anselm De Havelberg, Hugo Etheriano, Veccos and others).
May 6, 2014 · Chapter five covers the Palaiologan period. Kaldellis evocatively depicts the massive impact of the political upheaval on Byzantine thought, literature, and ethnography. The chapter has a different, thematically organized structure. Different sections are dedicated to travel literature, the Mongols and, finally, the Latins.